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[Trailhead?] Norwegian Film Committee
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Urk
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[Trailhead?] Norwegian Film Committee
Possible ARG for the video game Too Human



The Goblin Man of Norway

Video courtesy of IGN is found at the following url:
http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/748/748783/vids_1.html (Click the links under Watch it Now to view)

It begins as a simple Developer Diary with members of the Silicon Knights team discussing the gameplay and themes of Too Human, but around the 3:30 mark, they mention a film titled The Goblin of Norway and provide a link to the film production team's website.

The site is up, but it the URL's listed are currently dead.

http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/

Too Human is being published by Microsoft Game Studios and they've done more than one ARG for high profile properties in the past.

Silicon Knights is a Canadian development studio who believes that video games should speak the language of film and that the medium has come to its definitive moment where it will transcend the label of entertainment and become something of an art form all its own.

Hopefully this will open up into something both entertaining and artful.

Here are some images from the film:







The last ARG that emanated from a MGS property was Iris, a story that complimented the events in the game Halo 3.

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I'm in if it's an ARG. =D Wink
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kosmopol
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Oh, that looks cool. Since Microsoft made an ARG "The Final Mill" in Germany, I'm looking for their another productions.

And the videos looks very high quality alike.

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MrToasty
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Whois information for the NFC site:
http://whois.domaintools.com/norwegianfilmcommittee.org
Quote:
Created On:14-Feb-2008 17:29:28 UTC
Expiration Date:14-Feb-2009 17:29:28 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Registrant Name:John Smedstad
Registrant Organization:Norwegian Film Committee
Registrant Street1:Olleveien 24
Registrant City:Oslo
Registrant State/Province:OSLO
Registrant Postal Code:1182
Registrant Country:NO
Registrant Phone:+47.93200410
Registrant Email:sencha.satori@gmail.com

Registered Feb 14th this year, but earliest post on the site is from Nov of last year...

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Urk
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The URLs at the website are now live and working.

http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/en/home.html

Very Happy

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kosmopol
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sencha.satoriSPLATgmail.com...

Ist it OOG? Or IG:
http://www.geocities.com/soho/studios/4400/
Quote:
Sencha Satori: is intended to express not only the potential for Enlighenment through Tea, but to remind us of the potential for Enlightenment contained within even the most apparently mundane daily activity.


P.S. One of the members is Håkon Jåtun from Norway.

Ok, that site explains, what sencha satori is. But one more time:
煎茶(sencha, green tea) + 悟り (satori, Enlightenment)

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kosmopol
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Another information (perhaps my previous entry was completely OOG) .

This can help us, imho:

Found in google cache
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:k4s6zBmjtQwJ:www.screensailor.com/left_10_english.html+sencha.satori&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information
Name: John Frederick Smedstad Moore
Date of Birth: 27.07.74
Address: Olleveien 24, Oslo
Phone: +47 93200410
E-mail: sencha.satoriSPLATgmail.com

Education
Honours Bachelor, French Language and Literature

Work Experience
Freelance Translator
- HSE and the oil industry
- Marketing and sales documents
- Contracts and proposals
- IT/ICT and technical language
- Interpretive translations of creative texts
Kaffa AS - Coffee Roaster and Barista
Inspera AS - E-learning Consultant
IT-Akademiet Online AS - LMS Administrator
Teacher for English as a second language in South Korea

Courses
MCSE Windows NT 4.0


He is our man.

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kosmopol
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Me again (sorry for spamming)

Is Norwegian Film Committee OOG, i.e. real institution?
http://www.nfi.no/english/_nyheter/vis.html?id=2256

Quote:
Chairman of the Norwegian Film Fund, Kristenn Einarsson, will head the Norwegian film committee, which will by Thursday, 7 December deliver its input for a new cinema legislation to Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske. [...]
The committee will discuss – among others – how to spend more money on film and less on administration; who should be responsible for what in the industry; and a strategy for the international launch of Norwegian features.


Dated: 05.09.2006

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I believe it is in game Kos, as I have been googling up any names, titles or other topics from the English site talking about Goblin Man of Norway. Nothing comes up that would make any sense: there are no results for the films director, only a link to an xbox forum talking about the clip, and all other names don't point to the people mentioned in the film clip or the summaries on the site.

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kosmopol
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Oh yes, that xbox-forum was also only thing I've found Smile

Btw, here is a facebook of John Frederick Smedstad Moore
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=721640350

(OK, perhaps that's META, since he seems to be webmaster and not a character, but who knows...)

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kosmopol
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And me again.

The first geocities-page is also our page. Because as Håkon Jåtun as John Frederick Smedstad Moore are members of Satori Kulturformidling Ans
http://sesam.no/katalog/infoside/Satori+Kulturformidling+Ans/1019655/91de3be12fd118a7e1caba07a91a3942&showtab=role


According this branche list
http://www.bedriftsoket.no/kundeinfo/satori-kulturformidling-ans_985309418/
they are registered in the category "theater"

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The documentary is now viewable directly on the Media page.

http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/en/media.html

There are two broken links for a second a third part of the film, Examination and Exhibition. If it is an ARG, instead of viral marketing, I would suspect that sooner or later a path will open to get them up and working.

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kosmopol
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Urk wrote:
The documentary is now viewable directly on the Media page.

http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/en/media.html

There are two broken links for a second a third part of the film, Examination and Exhibition. If it is an ARG, instead of viral marketing, I would suspect that sooner or later a path will open to get them up and working.


Cool!

To the webmasters of NFC: use "index.html" to hide your files Smile
http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/flash/

The movie you can save on your harddisc:
http://www.norwegianfilmcommittee.org/flash/NFKGoblinMan1.flv

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Things from the video that would should keep our eyes peeled for:

G.W.O.B - Geomorphologists Without Borders. This is the organization that unearthed the "Goblin Man." They are said to be concerned with glacial measurements in the Northern regions of Scandinavia.

From Wikipedia: Geomorphology (from Greek: γη, ge, "earth"; μορφή, morfé, "form"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do: to understand landform history and dynamics, and predict future changes through a combination of field observation, physical experiment, and numerical modeling.

The two men who made the initial discovery are Mark Hoyt, who appears to be Canadian, and Nils Meyer, a Scandinavian. If someone can pin down the accents/dialect, that would be cool, but I'm not sure it is necessary at this point.

Once unearthed in a block of ice, the "Goblin Man" was taken to a nearby skating rink and an expert was brought in to make a professional examination of the find.

That man is Lawrence Dixon, author of Observed Actualities: Myths & Prehistory. There is no record of his authorship as of 03/28/08. We may be ahead of things, assuming of course, that there are things to be ahead of.

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Was it just me or did anyone else find it odd when Lawrence Dixon was examining the Goblin Man, he was in his street clothes and everyone else was in clean suits? If everyone else was in clean suits, I would assume they would not allow someone else into the area without one.

Also, any meaning for the hockey players to be just hanging out at the rink? Again, to me, they seem to be out of place with people in clean suits in the area, a curtain around the Goblin Man and they let the hokey players just hang out. I would have thought they would have cleared out the rink before bringing anything in.

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